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Surely it's misleading to talk about the "Stans" as a single bloc of homogenous nations? They may be in the same region but there are large divergences between them in terms of policy - Kazakhstan, for one, cannot be easily compared to the other Stans... The Kazakh ambassador to the US has already made this point http://www.project-syndicate.org/blog/stability-on-the-steppes